Managing change

An experiment was done by some researches to find how a frog responds to a change in the temperature of its external environment. The frog was placed in a boiling water and as soon as it sensed the temperature it jumped out of the water.

The frog sensed the heat and so it jumped not to damage its body. The researches then brought the same frog and placed it in cold water, then the water was heated gradually. Few moments later the water started to boil and the frog died!!!

It seems that when the change happened gradually the frog got used to it until it reached a degree where its body cannot tolerate it. You might be asking yourself what does this have to do with personal development? Actually this is directly related to the way we get used to changes in our environment, after reading this article you may find that you are a frog too!!

Are you a frog?

When changes happen in our external environment gradually we tend to get used to them and we don’t feel that a change actually happened. How many times have you found that your life became intolerable? How many times have you felt that you are not satisfied with your life or that you are facing endless problems? These feelings usually come when you discover that the water you are in is boiling. Because you didn’t take actions for a long time and because you kept delaying your duties things started to get worse. But you didn’t feel them because they happened gradually just as what happened to the frog. The following are examples of gradual changes that people usually don’t notice:

•Starting a new bad habit and getting involved into it gradually
•Buying lots of things on credit and then having a big dept problem few months later
•Accumulating small problems and ending up depressed later
•Wasting your health bit by bit then finding yourself at the hospital later
•Eating unhealthy food then few months suffer from obesity

Don’t be a frog

Keeping on open eye on the gradual changes that happen to you can prevent you from waking up one day and finding yourself in a mess. Even if the change that is happening seemed to be small it should never be ignored because as the time passes these small changes are going to pile until they become so powerful.

Don’t be a frog!! Even if you cant solve a small problem that you are facing at least keep an eye on it so that when it grows you don’t become surprised.

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But why dont i sense the change even if after it started to affect my life?

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